| Show i HOMEGROWN HOME GROWN FEED PROVES VALUE IN TURKEY TEST that the use of low protein mash with a base of home grown wheat sad and scarle barley showed shoved a 40 per pei cent decrease in the feed cost of producing a pound of turkey is recorder recorded in the da data ta compiled by professor byron alder of the utah state agricultural college these data show that it cost 12 cents cental for feed to produce a pound of m tarkey tarkey using a high protein level and yellow corn com and wheat as the grain base of the mash and grain mixture where it cost only 7 cents with ith a low protein level when wheat and barley barler were used the turkeys were weighed weigh ed dressed and prepared for market by the students of the poultry department no lack of growth nor lack in quality of meat seemed to follow the use of homegrown homei home grown grains according to wis this test mortality was equally low in both pens where corn or barley was used but was nearly double in the pens dens fed a very high rel ration as compared with ith pens fed a low protein ration there was no marked improvement in weight fleshing condition or feather growt in the birds on en the high protein levels professor alder said I 1 |
